Robot State Panel

[maxwellmlin]

Motivation

It is difficult to visualize the position and orientation of the robot when given only numerical values. Therefore, we would like to build a panel which displays the speed and orientation of the robot with an airplane-style indicator.

Requirements

• Airplane-style attitude and heading indicators
• Airplane-style altitude (depth) indicator
• Lateral (X & Y) speed indicator
• Vertical (Z) speed indicator
• Indicate erroneous sensor data¹

Later

• 3D model of robot that rotates according to orientation

Notes

• Take a look at this example of a modern airplane cockpit instrument (attitude, heading, altitude, speed, and more).
• Consider using Avionics JS for a prebuilt airplane-style GUI.
• For speed and altitude/depth, airplane GUIs are designed for large numbers that our robot will never attain. On the other hand, small changes in these values are important for our robot. The GUI will need to be modified to display smaller range of these values with more precision.
• You may need to look online for definitions. Here is a good start.

Footnotes

1. Sometimes, we obtain bad readings from our sensors causing state to drift substantially. We need an indicator that warns us when this happens. ↩